If you can’t beat them, unite. Microsoft MSN Instant Messenger and Yahoo Instant Messenger networks are joining together to fight AOL and the new threat from Google (I don’t think anybody considering it a threat has actually tried to use it, but thats a different topic).
SEATTLE, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) are preparing to link together their free instant messaging services as they take on entrenched messaging leader AOL and market newcomer Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , a source close to the companies said on Tuesday.
The deal, the first major alliance between two of the Web’s main providers of instant messaging, will allow users of Microsoft’s MSN Messenger service and Yahoo Messenger to swap instantaneous text messages with each other.
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